Break into banking — without a target school, a network, or a finance degree.

Break into banking — without a target school, a network, or a finance degree.

Break into banking — without a target school, a network, or a finance degree.

The exact end-to-end system used to break into investment banking from a chemistry degree and zero internships. Now built into a self-serve platform you can run alongside your degree or your day job.

The exact end-to-end system used to break into investment banking from a chemistry degree and zero internships. Now built into a self-serve platform you can run alongside your degree or your day job.

Run the system. If it doesn’t work, I’ll refund you — conditions in the FAQs below.

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Includes 50% off Financial Edge — the technical training banks use to train their own graduate intakes.

I broke in from the outside.

I broke in from the outside.

I broke in from the outside.

I did not come from a target school and I did not study finance. I had a chemistry degree, no internships, and no one in my family or network who had ever worked in banking. I learned the entire financial system from scratch while adjusting to the hours of the job I had somehow talked my way into.

I got in, and then I spent years on the inside watching how hiring decisions actually get made — who gets shortlisted, who gets cut in the first ten seconds, and what separates the two. I am now a Vice President in leveraged finance in London and a CFA charterholder, still doing the job rather than talking about having done it.

Here is what I found: the people getting offers were not better candidates than the people who did not. They were running a process. Everyone else was sending applications and hoping.

Charter Career is that process, written down, distilled into a self-serve platform you can access at any time.

I did not come from a target school and I did not study finance. I had a chemistry degree, no internships, and no one in my family or network who had ever worked in banking. I learned the entire financial system from scratch while adjusting to the hours of the job I had somehow talked my way into.

I got in, and then I spent years on the inside watching how hiring decisions actually get made — who gets shortlisted, who gets cut in the first ten seconds, and what separates the two. I am now a Vice President in leveraged finance in London and a CFA charterholder, still doing the job rather than talking about having done it.

Here is what I found: the people getting offers were not better candidates than the people who did not. They were running a process. Everyone else was sending applications and hoping.

Charter Career is that process, written down, distilled into a self-serve platform you can access at any time.

Why most candidates apply hard and still hear nothing.

Why most candidates apply hard and still hear nothing.

Why most candidates apply hard and still hear nothing.

The default approach is volume without a system. A generic CV, sent everywhere. A LinkedIn profile that says nothing. Applications fired at roles you have not actually researched, at firms you cannot explain why you want. Effort with no direction behind it.

Most of those applications are filtered before a human reads them. And because rejection is silent, you never find out what went wrong — so you repeat the same mistake for months. You cannot fix what you cannot see.

Eventually the motivation runs out and the search stalls. That is not a talent problem. It is a process problem, and process problems have solutions.

The default approach is volume without a system. A generic CV, sent everywhere. A LinkedIn profile that says nothing. Applications fired at roles you have not actually researched, at firms you cannot explain why you want. Effort with no direction behind it.

Most of those applications are filtered before a human reads them. And because rejection is silent, you never find out what went wrong — so you repeat the same mistake for months. You cannot fix what you cannot see.

Eventually the motivation runs out and the search stalls. That is not a talent problem. It is a process problem, and process problems have solutions.

From no idea where to start, to interviews in the diary.

From no idea where to start, to interviews in the diary.

From no idea where to start, to interviews in the diary.

Most people searching for a banking role are not short of effort. They are short of a process — so the work goes into whatever feels productive that day, and none of it compounds.

Charter Career replaces that with a single connected system. Every module produces an output. Every output feeds the next stage. Nothing is theory, and nothing sits in isolation.

It runs on one framework: Position, Access, Convert.

Most people searching for a banking role are not short of effort. They are short of a process — so the work goes into whatever feels productive that day, and none of it compounds.

Charter Career replaces that with a single connected system. Every module produces an output. Every output feeds the next stage. Nothing is theory, and nothing sits in isolation.

It runs on one framework: Position, Access, Convert.

POSITION

Work out which roles you can realistically win with the background you actually have. Read job descriptions properly, find where your evidence genuinely overlaps, and build a CV, LinkedIn and story that survive a ten-second screen.

ACCESS

Get in front of the people who make decisions. Build a real target list, run outreach that gets replies rather than being ignored, and apply on a rhythm you can sustain around a full-time commitment.

CONVERT

Turn conversations into offers. Behavioural, motivational and technical interviews — how to prepare for them, how to sound like a person rather than a script, and how to perform on the day.

Every module feeds one place: the Unified Career Tracker. By the time you finish, you are not holding a pile of notes — you are running a live search with a target list, working assets, active conversations and a weekly rhythm.

Technical skills — modelling, valuation, Excel — sit alongside this system rather than inside it. See the FAQs for how that is covered.

Five modules. 40+ lessons. One system.

Five modules. 40+ lessons. One system.

Five modules. 40+ lessons. One system.

A quick look at the platform you will be working inside — structured, clean, and built around producing outputs rather than consuming content.

[SCREENSHOTS TBC]

[SCREENSHOTS TBC]

Plus 7 technical primers covering the banking domain, the Unified Career Tracker, CV and outreach templates, and a full library of AI prompts built for each stage of the search.

Plus 7 technical primers covering the banking domain, the Unified Career Tracker, CV and outreach templates, and a full library of AI prompts built for each stage of the search.

Plus 7 technical primers covering the banking domain, the Unified Career Tracker, CV and outreach templates, and a full library of AI prompts built for each stage of the search.

Who this is for

Who this is for

You are a student, a recent graduate, or one to four years into a finance-adjacent role, and you want into banking

You are a student, a recent graduate, or one to four years into a finance-adjacent role, and you want into banking

You are outside the target-school pipeline and you already know the standard advice does not account for that

You are outside the target-school pipeline and you already know the standard advice does not account for that

You want a structured process to run, not more content to work through

You want a structured process to run, not more content to work through

You are willing to do outreach that feels uncomfortable

You are willing to do outreach that feels uncomfortable

You have the hours — you just want them pointed at the right things

You have the hours — you just want them pointed at the right things

Who this isn’t for

Who this isn’t for

You want someone to write your CV, run your search, or introduce you to their network. This is a system you run yourself.

You want someone to write your CV, run your search, or introduce you to their network. This is a system you run yourself.

You want someone checking in on you or holding you accountable. It is self-paced. The system works, but you have to work it.

You want someone checking in on you or holding you accountable. It is self-paced. The system works, but you have to work it.

You are looking for technical training — modelling, valuation, Excel. That is Financial Edge, and you get 50% off inside.

You are looking for technical training — modelling, valuation, Excel. That is Financial Edge, and you get 50% off inside.

You need visa sponsorship you do not currently have. This will not solve that.

You need visa sponsorship you do not currently have. This will not solve that.

You want private equity or hedge funds directly. Banking is the route in. This gets you the banking seat, not the buy-side one.

You want a guaranteed job. Nobody can sell you that, and anyone who says otherwise is lying to you.

Built from the inside. Followed by thousands.

Built from the inside. Followed by thousands.

Over 15,000 subscribers and approaching one million views across Haaris Zamir’s channel — students, graduates and career switchers working through the same problem.

We’ve teamed up with Financial Edge — the training arm that preps incoming analysts at the world’s top investment banks — so every Charter Career student gets 50% off their full technical library, including Felix, their all-access subscription. That’s $274.50 a year back in your pocket on Felix Boost alone.

Over 15,000 subscribers and approaching one million views across Haaris Zamir’s channel — students, graduates and career switchers working through the same problem.

We’ve teamed up with Financial Edge — the training arm that preps incoming analysts at the world’s top investment banks — so every Charter Career student gets 50% off their full technical library, including Felix, their all-access subscription. That’s $274.50 a year back in your pocket on Felix Boost alone.

The maths on one more year of waiting.

The maths on one more year of waiting.

A first-year banking seat pays materially more than the finance-adjacent role you are in now, or heading toward. On day one the gap is roughly [$X] — and it compounds, because every raise, every bonus and every exit opportunity after that is calculated from a higher base.

[PLACEHOLDER — US and UK salary comparison figures to be inserted. Conservative, sourced.]

Charter Career costs less than [N weeks] of that difference. Add the 50% Financial Edge discount — worth $274.50 on the technical training you would otherwise pay full price for — and the real cost of entry drops again.

The expensive option is not buying the system. It is another year of applications that go nowhere.

A first-year banking seat pays materially more than the finance-adjacent role you are in now, or heading toward. On day one the gap is roughly [$X] — and it compounds, because every raise, every bonus and every exit opportunity after that is calculated from a higher base.

[PLACEHOLDER — US and UK salary comparison figures to be inserted. Conservative, sourced.]

Charter Career costs less than [N weeks] of that difference. Add the 50% Financial Edge discount — worth $274.50 on the technical training you would otherwise pay full price for — and the real cost of entry drops again.

The expensive option is not buying the system. It is another year of applications that go nowhere.

Get Charter Career

Get Charter Career

Run the system. If it doesn’t work, I’ll refund you — conditions in the FAQs below.

You already know what happens if nothing changes.

You already know what happens if nothing changes.

You can keep sending applications into the void. Keep watching people with worse backgrounds and better information land the roles you wanted. Keep telling people you are still figuring it out.

Or you can install a process built by someone who broke in from exactly where you are standing.

You can keep sending applications into the void. Keep watching people with worse backgrounds and better information land the roles you wanted. Keep telling people you are still figuring it out.

Or you can install a process built by someone who broke in from exactly where you are standing.

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$997

Founding intake — 50% off

$497

$497

Founding intake price. Rising to $997 on [DATE].

Founding intake price. Rising to $997 on [DATE].

Included — Financial Edge partner discount

50% off

50% off all Financial Edge courses and the Felix all-access subscription — worth $274.50/year on Felix alone

The full Position → Access → Convert system

The full Position → Access → Convert system

5 modules, 40+ lessons, from Foundations to Interviews

5 modules, 40+ lessons, from Foundations to Interviews

7 technical primers covering the banking domain

7 technical primers covering the banking domain

The Unified Career Tracker and full template library

The Unified Career Tracker and full template library

AI prompt workflows for CV, LinkedIn, outreach and role research

50% off Financial Edge technical training

Lifetime access and lifetime updates

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